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My God, you mean it's possible to build a site that doesn't require 10MB of compressed stupid ass frameworks and preprocessors to turn your code into, uh, slightly different code? You can just... write HTML and CSS yourself? By hand? The deuce you say. :-D
TIL about the :target pseudoselector. I've actually written JS to implement this functionality because i didnt know about it. embarrassed.
This is something I've always wanted for virtual textbooks. A single .html file with all the JS, CSS, images as inline data blobs, etc. For most physics, math, CS, etc books, this should be possible. It would make it trivial to download the book for offline use and share it with others. Other than the raster images, the entire content of these types of books would probably fit in a couple MB of text. The use of #anch…
That could easily be made into a PWA that people could save and view offline. I've been doing this with create-react-app and markdown files (muuuch bulkier solution) but it's an offline docs-like SPA people can click around with interactive examples and shareable links etc. Seems like offline availability was not a priority for other docs-making tools like docosaurus etc (last time I checked)
You can add some JS here and there for the few really interactive elements of the document but my browser already has all the features to render documents and links perfectly fine. People have been able to "click around" since 1991 and we never needed to download, parse and execute 2MB of JS for this.
Your book is probably big, and I'm probably not reading it in one go, so if it includes images and videos, downloading it all is probably unnecessary and the book is probably best split in several HTML pages. If you want to allow me to consult it offline, that's very kind and noble. Just put a zip file somewhere I can download.
Sorry for the rant, but I'm a bit fed up by having to download run megabytes of Javascript I can't control (and even read, because yay, bundles!!) to browse the web, just because.
HTML and CSS alone are really powerful. I decided not to use any JS on my personal site, but you can still have: + collapsible sections with `details` and `summary`[0] + footnotes, with navigation to/from with anchor tags. You can even apply CSS on the currently selected footnote.[1] + Semantic web that is compatible with everything and has sensible defaults so you can focus on what you're actually doing! + Tiny depl…
I’d want templating if I’m going to make more than two pages on a site.
Got a ton of saved pages and articles from HN in my dropbox that I can read where I want later without worrying about dead links, ghost edits and other live annoying things.
HTML and CSS alone are really powerful. I decided not to use any JS on my personal site, but you can still have: + collapsible sections with `details` and `summary`[0] + footnotes, with navigation to/from with anchor tags. You can even apply CSS on the currently selected footnote.[1] + Semantic web that is compatible with everything and has sensible defaults so you can focus on what you're actually doing! + Tiny depl…
See your comment as an example. Why list all links at the bottom rather than in-place?